Vacation, Day 2

For our second day of vacation, we Rowes headed into Park City, and we got to enjoy some spectacular views along the way.

Madeleine was out of her mind over the scenery.

MADELEINE: Can you believe that people live here?? We're at the edge of these dazzling hills!  People actually live ON THE EDGE of these DAZZLING hills!

Madeleine then decided to take things to a really weird level by announcing, "I hope there's a really bad avalanche so that I can write a book about it!" Yes, Madeleine, entranced by American Girl books, is finding the current day to be unfair with it's dearth of historical crises like slavery or the Great Depression or World War 2 issues that occur in the books she's reading.

Things got even weirder after that.

MADELEINE: Julia, you would look SO GOOD sledding down that mountain with a volcano erupting behind you!!

Just...what??

We spent our day at the Olympic Stadium, where Julia was brave enough to soar down this zip line:

But too chicken to get down from this kiddie rock wall:

Even with Ethan trying to help her, she was simply too scared.

Meanwhile, Madeleine was all over everything:

When I went to check on Julia, I found her here:

Still.

I finally managed to guide her down, and she and Madeleine enjoyed some extreme tubing, plus a rock climbing wall arched over a pool:

The girls had so much fun, and we returned to Salt Lake City tired and happy.   I mean, Julia didn't get to sled down an erupting volcano or anything, but I think tubing down the slopes was *almost* as fun.